US Patent Issued to AISIN on Dec. 2 for "Step apparatus for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,824, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Step apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Masashi Miwa (Fujisawa, Japan), Atsushi Muramatsu (Fujisawa, Japan), Natsuki Ito (Fujisawa, Japan), Takahisa Kobayashi (Fujisawa, Japan), Norio Kato (Fujisawa, Japan) and Kimihiro Kinoshita (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A step apparatus for a vehicle includes a base attached to an outer side of a vehicle body, an arm rotatably provided on the base, and a step supported by the arm and movable with respect to the base. The step apparatus for a vehicle is in, by rotation of the arm, a deployed state in which ...